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“In any given political discussion, if religion is mentioned, the probability of the discussion shifting to a flame war about religion and the Founding Fathers approaches one.”

“Now, the Republicans in the Senate, instead of dealing with his litany of failures, are threatening to claim ownership of the Supreme Court and other federal courts, hoping to achieve political results on subjects like abortion, stem cells, the environment and civil rights that they can not get from the proper political bodies: the Congress and the presidency.”

“Last year Wal-Mart imported $18 billion worth of goods from China. Of Wal-Mart’s 6,000 suppliers, 5,000 — 80 percent — are in one country, and it isn’t the United States.”

“Once an election is over, one guy gets tagged with the loser label. Much like Al Gore after the 2000 race, Senator Kerry has been working diligently since November to make sure everyone now knows that this label really fits him as well.”

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”

“I’m thinking we have our most precious resource engaged in combat, and certainly the wealth of our nation can provide young, selfless men with what they need to accomplish their mission. That’s an erudite way of putting it. I have a much more guttural response that I won’t give you.”

“I’m confident when I have something serious to say, my readers will know it — even if I haven’t carefully labeled my post with a satire or parody tag. They’re perceptive that way, my readers. And I suggest that it might not be such a bad idea if some people in the blogosphere stopped taking themselves so fucking seriously.”

“The left has the race card and the gender card; the right has the ‘faith card.’”

“The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled volunteers.”

“The IIS/ASP world is run by an Old Testament God. Trouble and mercy take on whole new meanings there.”

“This will not be the last thing that you read about that makes me look ridiculous”

“The first half of the oil age now closes. It lasted 150 years and saw the rapid expansion of industry, transport, trade, agriculture and financial capital, allowing the population to expand six-fold. The second half now dawns, and will be marked by the decline of oil and all that depends on it, including financial capital.”

“I just look at this institution as really the last bastion of protecting the rights of the minority, and we should be very careful before we try and make any changes.”

“There’s a danger of the internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.”

“I grow more and more convinced the Republican majority will end itself by 2006 if the Left will just shut up for five minutes.”

“Put another way, it’s a safe bet to say that soon, we’ll be able to generate PDFs from Flash movies with a ColdFusion backend that plays back video edited in Premiere wrapped in an interface laid out in Dreamweaver, designed in Fireworks and colored in Illustrator. All within a single company’s product lineup. Get ready for a productivity suite that leaves you winded, for sure.”

“To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want ‘em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot ‘em.”

“The values alleged so far in this scandal — greed, hypocrisy, favor-selling, dissembling — belong to no creed except the ruthless pursuit of power. They are not exclusive to either political party. But the religious trappings add a note that distinguishes these Beltway creeps from those who have come before: a supreme righteousness that often spirals into anger and fire-and-brimstone zealotry that can do far more damage to America than ill-begotten golf junkets.”

“PATHETIC AND DISHONEST. Those are the only words I can think of to describe a major media event portraying Democrats as ‘against people of faith’ for blocking President Bush’s nominees. And I am thoroughly disgusted that the Senate majority leader is taking part. I can think of few better ways to drive me and my fellow independents into the arms of the Democrats.”

“If he does it, it’ll be a watershed moment — a transformational moment for the GOP ... marking the political death of a dominant part of its party. Forget Democrats. Anyone who is a libertarian Republican, centrist, or independent voter has to be extremely concerned — and angered — by this.”

“I may have voted for my last Republican in a long time. These wingnut, know-nothing, fundamentalist creeps are scaring the shit out of me, and liberty is at stake when it comes to these law and order goons.”

“So what would happen if something vitally important happened — a terrorist attack, an assassination, war, political upheaval — and the blogosphere went atwitter, but Blogger went down? Does Google want to incur the wrath of the blogosphere? It’s a utility. It had better keep the lights on. Or else.”

“The truth hurts. But Eric Robert Rudolph, the man who had no apologies to make when he was pleading guilty to bombing women’s clinics, gay nightclubs and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, is the ideological cousin to Randall Terry, the so-called ‘spokesman’ for the Schindler family and the media darling of the Terri Schiavo debacle of three weeks ago.”

“Democrats should save their money. Why murder someone who is committing suicide?”

“Rather than being serious about reforming the judiciary, I think that some Republicans are more interested in intimidating judges while bolstering direct-mail fundraising for advocacy groups and politicians.”

“In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.”

“For decades I have argued that the negative effects of deficits are generally exaggerated. But unless spending is checked or revenue raised, we are facing deficits of historic proportions. It is simply unrealistic to think we can finance a 50 percent increase in spending as a share of gross domestic product — which is what is in the pipeline — just by running ever-larger deficits.”

“In 1945, corporations paid more than one-third of the government’s revenues. Now they pay only 11 percent because corporations, especially multinationals, are voluntary taxpayers. In a world increasingly without borders that block capital movements, corporations pay where the burden is lowest.”

“Most of my life I had lived in sophisticated, relatively privileged coastal cities like Los Angeles and New York. I had grown weary of criticism about people in those places being elitists, out of touch with the American mainstream ... It had taken my move to Georgia to show me that those criticisms were at least partly true.”